Female.
Menstruation, scanty (after 14 days).
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi.
Laryngeal catarrh.
Collection of the mucus in the larynx, which rattles somewhat in the evening. Accumulation of mucus in the larynx. Accumulation of mucus in the larynx, with ticking and irritation. Constant collection of the mucus in the bronchials, which he is unable to remove. Frequent hawking, cough, and irritation to cough.
Pressure in the larynx, especially the left side, with the stool.
Provocation to cough, with accumulation of mucus in the trachea.
Voice.
Speech low. Voice hollow; he is obliged to hawk constantly.
Voice rather hollow and hoarse, as though he had a severe cold.
Voice husky (2nd day). Voice hoarse and rough.
Cough and Expectoration.
Cough in the evening. With white mucous expectoration and oppression of the chest. Cough with difficult yellowish expectoration; spitting of blood, after which the yellowish expectoration continued a long time. Frequent cough, in the morning, with expectoration. Constant cough. Expectoration of much tenacious mucus, which tastes sour.
Respiration. Breathing, short and hurried. Respiration slow and powerless. Respiration, 12 Oppressed Respiration. Respiration impeded and painful. Anxious, oppressed, difficult, respiration.
Respiration difficult with constriction of the chest. Sensation as though he could not get air enough into the air- cells, and could not perfectly expand the lungs. On inspiration, it seems as though he could not expand the lungs.
Difficult breathing. Very short breath after the stools.
Respiration though the nose stopped. Dyspnoea, aggravated by going upstairs.
Chest.
Feeling of hollowness in the chest. Peculiar discomfort in the chest and abdomen. Peculiar malaise in the chest and abdomen, which forces him to yawn and stretch. Feeling as though there was mucus in the lungs, which could not be removed by hawking, together with difficult breathing, and slight whistling, on deep inspiration and expiration. Pains in the chest. Fullness of the chest, somewhat impeding respiration. Fullness, pressure, and burning in both thoracic cavities. Feeling of fullness in both thoracic cavities, with burning stitches in the left thorax, and towards both scapulae.
Tightness at the chest. Pressure, deep within, at the middle of the chest. Oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest, in the evening. Oppression of the chest on deep inspiration.
Oppression and anxiety. Severe oppression of the chest in the evening. Stitches in the left thorax. Tearing along the edges of the ribs, extending backward and down to the small of the back.
Painfulness of the chest to touch. Sudden throbbing in the region of the aorta.
Front.
Transient pressure over the sternum (after 7 hours).
Sides.
Pressive pain in the left chest, and left hypochondrium (after 10 hours). Pressive pain in the left chest, with feeling of oppression (after 12 hours). Sticking in the left half of the chest. Sticking in the right lower third of the chest during inspiration. Violent stitches through the middle of the left side of the chest in the afternoon. Throbbing in the posterior portion of the right thoracic cavity. Frequent throbbing-bubbling in the lower side of the chest, between the 6th and 7th ribs; next day, very frequent throbbing and pulsating in the same region.
Heart and Pulse.
Precordium. Very perceptible pulsation and throbbing of the heart. Sticking in the praecordial region on expiration, repeated after 1 hour. Frequent sticking in the praecordial region.
Some jerkings in the left side of the heart.
Heart’s Action.
Palpitation of the heart in the afternoon.
Palpitation after dinner, especially when lying down. Violent palpitation.
Pulse.
Accelerated pulse. Pulse rapid and weak (soon). Pulse small and rapid (after 3 quarters of an hour) Pulse small, rather rapid.
Frequent and weak pulse. Pulse so weak and quick that it could not be counted (after 3 hours). Pulse 108 very feeble. Pulse 120 (after 1 hour and three quarters). Pulse 150 and very weak (after 2 hours and three quarters). Pulse small, weak 64. Pulse full.
Feeble pulse (1 case) (after 18 hours). Pulse weak and small.
Small, contracted pulse (after 4 hours). Pulse at 1st weak and small, becoming stronger and fuller than usual.
Neck and Back.
Neck.
Pain in the muscles of the left side of the nape, on nodding the head (after 4 hours). Fullness extending up to the neck from the abdomen, with pressure in the pharynx. Pressure in the right side of the neck. Pressure and drawing in the cervical vertebrae.
Sticking between the nape and occiput.
Back.
Violent pains in the back and the lumbar region, in the space between the lumbar vertebrae, false ribs, and ilium.
Lumbar.
Warmth starting from the lumbar vertebrae. Pains in the small of the back. Violent sticking in the region of the left kidney, in the afternoon, taking away the breath. Stitches in the left region (after 4 hours and a half hours).
Extremities in General.
Trembling of the hands and feet.
Weakness of the arms and legs (from the effluvia). Pains in the limbs.
Superior Extremities.
Heaviness and weariness of both arms.
Tearing in the right arm, extending to the upper arm, afterwards down to the fingers.
Shoulder.
Pressive pain in the right shoulder-joint. Sticking in the left shoulder-joint. Tearing in the right shoulder.
Arms.
Heaviness of the upper arm, which is easily fatigued. Heavy tense sensation in both upper arms. Pain in the inner side of the left upper arm. A rheumatic pain in the left upper arm, waking him from sleep, disappearing during the day. Tension, weary pain, in both upper arms. Tension and pressure in the right upper arm, with sensation of weariness extending to the hand. Tearing in the right upper arm, and afterward in the right shoulder-joint.
Sudden tearing pain in the left upper arm, especially in the deltoid muscle, lasting 3 hours (after 4 hours).
Elbow.
Boring pain in the left elbow at noon.
Forearm.
Drawings in the right forearm. Tearing in the left forearm.
Wrist.
Drawing above the right wrist; in the evening.
Fingers.
Drawings and tearings in the left middle finger.
Tearing pain in the finger-joints of the right hand, lasting several hours.
Inferior Extremities.
Weariness and exhaustion in the lower extremities. Prostrated and exhausted feeling in the legs.
Hip. Tensive pain in the left hip-joint which makes it difficult to rise from the seat.
Thigh. Paralyzed feeling in the left thigh. Awoke, after midnight, feeling as though the thighs were as heavy as lead.
Burning and swelling of the nates where they approximate by the anus, after moving about. Itching burning in the middle of the left thigh.
Especially painful pressure in the thighs. Sore pain between the left thigh and the scrotum (2nd day).
Knee. Tension and prickling in the knee-joints. Cramp like pain in the right knee-joint, (* The prover was formerly subject to rheumatic troubles in the knee. *). transient (after 10 minutes).
Crawlings in both knees. (Crawling and tearing in the knee- joints).
Leg.
Twitching of the legs during the midday nap. Pains in the legs and feet. Tearing in the left leg.
Ankle.
Heaviness and pressure in the ankles in the evening.
Sticking-extending from the right external malleolus to the forepart of the foot.
Foot.
The feet failed him on going upstairs. Feeling of nervous weakness in the feet. Sticking on the margin of the left foot, as though she had turned it while sitting. Rheumatic tearings, in the left foot. Frequent pain, as if sprained, in the left foot.
Jerking in the left foot, while sitting. Frequent cramp like pain in the sole of the left foot, and on the inner side of the foot.
Jerkings and tearings at times in the sole of the left foot.
Toes.
On walking he is attacked, three times in succession, with sticking and tearing pains as if sprained, especially in the left metatarsal bone of the great toe, so that he is unable to step fairly upon it. Violent sticking in the left great toe, and after a quarter of an hour also in the right. Rheumatic tearing in the right great toe. Painful prickling and sticking in the right great toe where the nail enters the skin. Crawling in the right little toe.
Jerking crawling in the right great toe.
General Symptoms.
Objective.
Sudden emancipation. Trembling of the whole body.
Weakness. Great weakness. Great weakness on rising in the morning with trembling of hands and feet. Very great debility.
Prostration Prostration of the whole body, with frequent slight nausea.
Stool followed by prostration, and some pain in abdomen. General Prostration. State of collapse. During vomiting and for 2 hours after, constant tendency to faint, and deathly, indescribable feeling of prostration (one case), (after 18 hours). Attacks of faintness. Lay in a lethargic state, sometimes drawing himself up as if in pain (after 3 hours). Very restless; tossing convulsively about as if in pain (after 1 hour and three- quarters). Generally lying quiet on belly, but occasionally tossing about (after 2 hours and three quarters). Anxious oppressed tossing about in bed, with loss of sleep. Uneasiness.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.